The boat people. half of whom drown and the remainder run the gamut of rapacious murdering pirates. symbolize the catastrophic consequences of demanding a standard of perfection from an embattled government under stress while the Communist alternative awaits assuming power so it can impose its own brand of terror. persecution. and death. The predictable result in Vietnam as a consequence of the sanctimony and hypocritical fastidiousness of the American antiwar left was a Communist takeover. the erection of its own Gulag and the extirpation of human rights accompanied by the ongoing and incalculable loss of human lives. But where are the expressions of outrage at this Asiatic holocaust? Where are the ringing denunciations and the pastoral letters of condemnation? The pickets at the United Nations?